Check out the trash basket that inspired 432 Park

Rendering of 432 Park Avenue (credit: Rafael Vinoly Architects) and a Josef Hoffmann-designed trash basket

Pure, revolutionary, genuinely distinguished — these are all terms that architecture critics have used to describe Rafael Vinoly’s masterwork, the Western Hemisphere’s tallest residential tower, 432 Park Avenue. But would they say the same of the trash basket it was modeled on? (more…)